God & Particles (The nature of a \'Creator\')

by dhw, Wednesday, June 11, 2014, 18:54 (3600 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: God is both the particles and the organizer of the particles. He is one and the same.-Perhaps just as I am both my particles and the organizer of my particles on those occasions when I think I am free to make a decision. (My intelligence makes my particles play cricket, or eat a bar of chocolate, or write a post to David.) Of course the difference is that there is only one of me, whereas your God has zillions of separate sets of particles to organize ... which means his intelligence must be in them all at the same time, steering each one to interact with the others. You will by now have seen how this ties in with panpsychism, and BBella's fascinating response to GateKeeper adds a great deal more material to our discussion. In the next day or so I shall try to draft the hypothesis that will draw some of these threads together.